Shaun Lintern

Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Chair of @mjauk. Public interest journalism matters #E17

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 Hundreds of NHS staff a year are being investigated for sexual misconduct with many allowed back to work even after being found guilty.

Now Britain's top surgeon says enough is enough and a radical overhaul is needed to protect staff & patients:
https://t.co/XpA0tBSjSx

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BREAKING: London Ambulance Service has recorded its highest EVER number of life-threatening emergencies. Ambulance crews responded to a record 642 Category 1 calls yesterday

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

@TJCoats This is from my original report 5 years ago - its about piecing together various data. No single measure can give you the full view. We do need to be better at outcome measures - but also we know there is a problem broadly in maternity that has to be factored in

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

5 years ago I spent a week in Nottingham meeting families to talk about maternity failures at the local hospital. What I learned investigating Nottingham will be confirmed today by an inquiry. The families have done amazing work to force the truth. They shouldn't have had to.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Exclusive: Dozens of baby deaths after errors at one of UK’s largest hospitals https://t.co/kyd4eKOBxR

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The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 1,118, including 291 deaths, government data showed on Wednesday. https://t.co/qI72zWUH6b https://t.co/qI72zWUH6b

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

@TJCoats When I looked at its data a few yesrs back it was an outlier for spontaneous births, stillbirths etc but as I recall you have to look at performance against comparable groups of trusts. A lot of the harm led to disability rather than death

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

An analysis of hospital data, comparing @nottmhospitals to more than 20 similar sized trusts, showed it had a consistently above-average rate of spontaneous, or natural birth, compared with other trusts for every year since 2010 - were women left too long before intervention?

[QLP @ziegesleftfoot]

Normal birth unequivocally killed my son, left my partner in excruciating pain and risked her life too. A midlife who publicly states on her Twitter account she is “passionate about physiological birth” overruled a clinician to deny a c-section while my partners placenta tore

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

The Inquiries Act says a public inquiry can be set up where "particular events have caused, or are capable of causing, public concern".

Hard not to imagine the bare faced cheek of these senior leaders not meeting that test.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Of the 14 senior leaders at CCG/ICB level, only 4 agreed to give evidence. Of 66 senior managers at @nottmhospitals only 35 actually engaged with the review just 53%.

This is shocking behaviour by supposed NHS leaders.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

@bumblebeenush A question for smarter people than me but I do think the leadership of our healthcare systems dont know how to respond to this. They dont have the change skills nor the political power to do it right. Sadly improving safety isn't a good enough incentive. We need something else.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Heading back to London on a train without air-con reflecting on a powerful, emotional and deeply frustrating day at the launch of the Ockenden report. This must be a watershed moment for maternity - and I've said that at least 3 times previously.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

@grannyallan_val We know there are questions to ask about education training https://t.co/SbQDfazqjB

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever:

READ: https://t.co/bjGU9i0KZ0

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Ockenden references a pursuit of "normal birth" at Nottingham Hospitals that she said caused severe harm and deaths with mothers not listened to repeatedly

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 BREAKING: Nottingham maternity review exposes ‘cruel’ care and toxic bullying at NHS trust:
https://t.co/mu9ulWXzp6

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

The treatment of the bodies of 17 babies and 1 mother after death involved a loss of dignity. In 2016 a baby was put into a mortuary place with another unrelated adult. Another baby was disposed of as "clinical waste" against the parents expressed wishes.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

@drsanjoykumar @nottm_post @nottsinquiry @SheriffNottz @redrumlisa @coatesaholic Absolutely. A chronic disease afflicting many NHS organisations and particularly their unregulated, poorly trained and ill-supported leaders.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

"For too long those at the top of this trust prioritsied institutional reputation over safety"

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 BREAKING: Nottingham maternity review exposes ‘cruel’ care and toxic bullying at NHS trust:
https://t.co/mu9ulWXzp6

[Martyn Pitman @MartynPitman]

Further definitive evidence from the @DOckendenLtd Nottingham Maternity investigation, that dangerous normalisation ideology was endemic. It has, therefore, now been implicated in every single one of the lamentable series of UK Maternity service scandals, over the last decade.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

The families say a public inquiry is needed to look at regulators and policies pursued by DHSC and NHSE for decades. They have not been examined by any maternity inquiry so far they point out...

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At a press conference right now Nottingham families say "unsafe practices, racism and abhorrent leadership" has been laid bare by the Ockenden review. "Our concerns were dismissed, we weren't told the truth even after death. We never wanted to be campaigners, we are victims".

[Jason Payne-James @JJPJ]

Absolutely disgraceful

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Family spokesman Jack Hawkins acknowledges some staff who tried to do good in poor circumstances. Speaking to leaders who refused to engage says "Questions must be asked whether these people are fit to continue working in the NHS. The time has come for a statutory public inquiry"

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

At a press conference right now Nottingham families say "unsafe practices, racism and abhorrent leadership" has been laid bare by the Ockenden review. "Our concerns were dismissed, we weren't told the truth even after death. We never wanted to be campaigners, we are victims".

[Deb Hazeldine MBE 🌿🌸🌻🌼🏡🌳🪴 @DebHazeldine]

How much more evidence is needed to implement Regulation for nhs managers.

[Catherine Roy @catherineroyuk]

Nottingham maternity.
These leaders are paid with tax money. They should not be allowed to keep silent. They owe us some explanations.

[Benjamin Bloch @Bloch_ortho]

I don’t know how those that refused to appear can justify their actions.